Onyx De La Osa, past vice-president of the Italian Club "Insieme," graduated with a Master of Arts from University of Cetral Florida, with a thesis on Sicilian history, titled "The Uniqueness of a Kingdom: The Frontier Kingdom of Norman Sicily in Comparative Perspective." He says: "My knowledge of Italian helped me read history books."

In Spring 2020, thousands of rainbow flags, mostly painted by children, repeated "Everything will be fine"-"Andra' tutto bene" from every balcony in Italy. This is a class flag prepared by the students of Odra Dorante's Beginning Italian class. They were inspired by Gianni Rodari's poem "Speranza" (Hope).

Viviana Pezzullo, graduate teaching assistant and PhD candidate at Florida Atlantic University, relies on simplicity and human connection to reach her students during the transition to virtual instruction of Italian and World Literature, due to Coronavirus. Watch and read it here.

Italian classes and the Italian Club Insieme do not stop in Coronavirus times.... We still see each other and we meet current and past students, and old friends. For the impact of Covid in the Miami Scientific Italian Community, click here.

The FAU Italian Program joined the world-wide celebration for 100th birthday of Federico Fellini by showing a selection of pages from "Il libro dei sogni" sent by Comune di Rimini (the city of Rimini, his hometown).

Twice-nominated Pulitzer Price autor John Domini joins Dr. Emanuele Pettener for a conversation on Naples, Italian America and his latest novels. January 2020. A description of the evening and interview with the writer by Jessica Monge, here.

Dr. Emanuele Pettener and Dr. Ilaria Serra receive the award of Program of the Year for the Venice Study Abroad Program. Read more in We The Italians.

End-of-semester dinner prepared by the students of Dr. Myriam Ruthenberg's class "Italian Culture Through Food", 2019.

The concert "L'Italiano sul palcoscenico" opened the XIX Week of Italian Language in Florida at Florida Atlantic University, at the presence of the Italian Cosul, Cristiano Musillo, and the participation of the students of Italian of Sunrise Park Elemenrary School, Loggers' Run Middle School, West Boca High. Tenor Carlos De Antonis rides a Vespa and FAU students Ethan Vogt and Laura Romero sing as soloists. A memorable event, October 2019. To read more, click on the ODLI newsletter.

Italian Film Dreams, entry for the international competition “Vivere all’italiana” organized by the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by the 2019 class, “Italian Language Through Cinema,” taught by Dr. Ilaria Serra. It shows how you can “dream Italian” when you study with us! Click here to see full video!

Marianna De Tollis and Vincenza Iadevaia celebrated their successful dissertation defense in Spring 2019: "Finding a Room on One’s Own: Veronica Franco and Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz” (De Tollis) and "Punctuated Identities in Contemporary Italian Cinema" (Iadevaia). In the first photo, Ozpetek's iconic apples and advisors, Dr. Ruthenberg, Dr. Serra, and Dr. Guneratne. Marianna teaches at FAU. Vincenza lives in Istanbul, Turkey, and is a fellow of Kadir Has University.

Special students: Salvatore Lepore, Professor of Chemistry, and Italian and French Major; George Mazzei and Thomas Connors De Angelis long-time tudents and auditors of Italian courses.

Italian Consul in Miami Cristiano Musillo and Serenella De Rosa, Director of the Education Office of the Italian Consulate, visit Florida Atlantic University for the III Symposium "Italy in Transit". Here they are with Jupiter attorney Antonella Balzano, Nichola Cuellar, president of the Italian Club "Insieme," Dr. Ilaria Serra, Tony Phillips, president of Italo-American Cultural Society, of Pompano Beach and Norma Phillips.

Congratulations to Nicolas Cuellar, FAU Freshman, president of the FAU Italian Club Insieme. He has won the NIAF (National Italian American Foundation) trip to Washington DC and will be FAU-NIAF ambassador at FAU.

Marjorie Hernandez has won a $50 Amazon gift card for her Prize at photo competition “Italy in South Florida”, organized by FATI (Florida Association Teachers of Italian).

Congratulations, Flaviane Chaves, for winning the prize “Il cioccolato parla italiano," organized by Florida International University and the University of Perugia.

Italian and Chemistry students visit the headquarters and production center of MAPEI in Fort Lauderdale. MAPEI is an Italian-owned international firm, founded in Milan, and its specializes in materials for construction. PMI Day (Piccola e Media Industria), 2018 and 2019.

Prof. Ilaria Serra welcomes Angelo Sbrocca to Florida Atlantic University. Sbrocca, mayor of the city of Termoli, came to Florida to sign a new sister-city agreement with the town of Pompano Beach.

Italian undergraduate and graduate students, Marjorie Hernandez, Nicoletta Sorice, Viviana Pezzullo, and Federico Tiberini gather for a GKA Research Day, one day of reading, cataloging, and describing documents from a World War II letter fund (Patricia Badia Johnson) for our Digital Humanities Project.

Italian undergraduate and graduate students, Marjorie Hernandez, Nicoletta Sorice, Viviana Pezzullo, and Federico Tiberini gather for a GKA Research Day, one day of reading, cataloging, and describing documents from a World War II letter fund (Patricia Badia Johnson) for our Digital Humanities Project.

Advanced Italian students, Zachary Botte, Angela Dalton, Alexandrina Dec, Marjorie Hernandez, Samuele Pasqualotto, Logan Rosenfeld, Nicoletta Sorice, Daniela Rozman, and Prof. Ilaria Serra signed the English subtitles for the Un Posto Altrove. A place Elsewhere by Luca Sella and Andrea Onori, a documentary about two stories of immigration in the city of Venice (2017).

Inauguration of the painting "Bagheria" by Tom Di Salvo, a late friend of the Italian program, donated by the Di Salvo family.

Prof. Myriam Ruthenberg’s class on Dante’s The Divine Comedy read and comment their favorite cantos in the open air, to students of Introduction to World Literature.

Students of Italian meet author Rosemary Bracco about her novel The Sins of Castel DuMont, during the Oretta del Cappuccino in front of the beautiful “Grassroot” work of art in Culture and Society building, FAU.

Students of Advanced Italian act in short play by Luigi Pirandello, under the direction of actor Fabio Pasquini visiting from Rome.

Students and general audience welcome filmmaker Samuele Rossi who presented his first movie, La strada verso casa.

Mary Jane Saunders, Florida Atlantic University former president, greets students of Italian during their conversation hours, Oretta del Cappuccino, on campus.

Students of Italian and our Boca community meet pianist, singer and songwriter Giacomo Toni, from Emilia Romagna, who gives an improvised performance in the FAU music room.

Former presidents of the Italian Club, Nicola Pace (Ph.D. student in Mathematics), Madgalena Pire-Schmidt, and Pamela Fuentes sit at the “Club Insieme” table at a student organization event at FAU.

Nicole Abbott, Tiffany Lopez and other students of Advanced Italian use games and songs to teach the rudiments of Italian to the children of FAU A.D. Henderson Elementary school “Italian Club,” during a semester-long Academic Service Learning experience.

Florida Atlantic University embodies a culture of strategic and collaborative community engagement that results in mutual benefit to the institution and the diverse internal and external communities that it serves.